The snmp3_get() function is used to read the
value of an SNMP object specified by the
object_id.
Parameters
hostname
The hostname of the SNMP agent (server).
security_name
The security name, usually some kind of username.
security_level
The security level: "noAuthNoPriv",
"authNoPriv", or "authPriv".
auth_protocol
The authentication protocol: "MD5", "SHA",
"SHA256", or "SHA512".
auth_passphrase
The authentication passphrase.
privacy_protocol
The privacy protocol: "DES", or "AES",
also accepted as "AES128". "AES192", "AES192C",
"AES256", and "AES256C" are accepted when supported by the
Net-SNMP library.
privacy_passphrase
The privacy passphrase.
object_id
The SNMP object id.
timeout
The number of microseconds until the first timeout.
retries
The number of times to retry if timeouts occur.
Return Values
Returns SNMP object value on success or false on error.
Changelog
Version
Description
8.6.0
The privacy protocol now accepts "AES192",
"AES192C", "AES256", and
"AES256C" when supported by the Net-SNMP library.
8.5.0
Now throws a ValueError when the hostname
length is equal to or greater than 128 bytes, when the port is
negative or greater than 65535, or when the timeout or retries values
are lower than -1 or too large.
8.1.0
The authentication protocol now accepts "SHA256"
and "SHA512" when supported by the Net-SNMP library.